Hello crafty friends. I know it’s a bit early (as it’s nowhere near spring yet…) but I decided to make a birthday card with the daffodil spray set from Claritystamp. The colour palette on this week’s CAS Colours and Sketches challenge seemed perfect for it I started with Clarity’s ‘ocean swirl’ mixed texture A5 background… Read More an early daffodil!
Hello crafty friends. You may recall that my friend and I ran a craft group last week – we made a variety of cards with strip of paper and I thought I’d share one of the techniques with you today. I first saw this design on Pinterest and then spent a little while figuring out… Read More white on white
Hello crafty friends and welcome to my second post of the day – I’m catching up with myself! These little cats are part of the latest November set from Claritystamp’s die Craft Club, and I love them – you can just see the energy and intent in their outlines. They are obviously perfect (should that… Read More Christmas wishes!
Hello crafty friends. I’m still on Christmas cards and have a nice quick one to share today, inspired by a couple of challenges. The theme over at Inspired by is ‘winter beauty’ and I drew on their photo and sketch for the design of this card, together with The Paper Players‘s theme of ‘winter wonderland’… Read More winter beauty
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for my weekly dip back into the Claritystamp new design club archive, and it’s a very timely one with the ‘candles’ stamp from November 2017. I was inspired watching Barbara Gray on The Craft Store TV channel this afternoon, so thought I’d team it up with one of their mixed… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – candles #133
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another one of Julie Hickey’s stamps today – this time the half sunflower from her ‘be happy’ set. It’s such a great image and so easy to use. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of challenges for this one – the colour palette is from Color Throwdown and the… Read More pink sunflower
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for our next theme at Alphabet Challenge – we’re up to R and Debbie has opted for cards and projects that are red. That’s such a great choice of colour for this time of year! I recently did a very CAS card using Julie Hickey’s ‘poinsettia’ stamp & die, so… Read More R is for red
Hello crafty friends. It’s another quick Christmas card today, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘merriest moments’ stamps again with the ‘wintry’ embossing folder. This one has been inspired by the photo and sketch over at Fusion I started by making an A6 card blank from a piece of dark silver card. I then embossed a piece of… Read More leafy joy
Hello crafty friends. Today’s Christmas card was inspired by the new challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches, which is a combination of colours and a sketch as it was the fifth Tuesday in the month. I decided to go with a mixture of Claritystamps – I love it when different sets work well together. I… Read More joyful nativity
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another Christmas card, this time using Stampin; Up!’s ‘merriest moments’ set and some retired ‘joyous noel’ paper. This one picks up the sketch from The Paper Players and the left hand column from TicTacToe‘s grid (stitching, wreath & sparkle) I started with a piece of the’joyous noel’ paper and… Read More poinsettia wreath
